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Louisiana AG: Law not Followed in Changing State Employee Health Insurance Plan
Sep 25 2014 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration skipped required legal steps in making changes to the health insurance plans that cover state employees, teachers and retirees, the state attorney general’s office said. In a...
$1.6M in Preparedness Grants Go to Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Sep 23 2014 // Emergency management agencies in five states – Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas – have been awarded more than $1.6 million in preparedness grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),...
Louisiana Public Worker Health Insurance Program Hemorrhaging Cash
Sep 22 2014 // Despite sweeping changes enacted by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration, the health insurance program for state workers and public school employees will have to use $88 million from its reserve fund to cover its costs...
Slight Decline in Work-Related Deaths in Louisiana in 2013
Sep 22 2014 // The number of work-related fatalities in 2013 in Louisiana declined to 114, according to a preliminary count by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, the Louisiana Workforce...
Rate Changes in Store for Louisiana Citizens Commercial Insurance Customers
Sep 22 2014 // Premiums for almost all of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s commercial customers will increase an average of 2.3 percent beginning in February, under a proposed rate filing. But the 307 customers whose...
$2.25M Additional Claims Payments Recovered in Louisiana in First Half of 2014
Sep 22 2014 // Consumers who filed complaints were helped by Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) to recover an additional $2.25 million in insurance payments during the first half of 2014. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said the...
Corps Wants Changes at Louisiana’s Morganza Flood Control Structure
Sep 19 2014 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold public meetings next week on plans to tweak the way the Morganza flood control structure is operated during floods. The Morganza flood control structure diverts water from the...
After Worker Dies Chevron Drains Natural Gas Pipeline Off Louisiana Coast
Sep 18 2014 // Authorities said that a Chevron Corp. subsidiary was still releasing natural gas on Sept. 14 from a pipeline off the Louisiana coast where an incident killed a maintenance worker. Col. Mike Edmonson, the superintendent of...
Rate Change Ahead for Louisiana Citizens Insurance Commercial Customers
Sep 15 2014 // Premiums for almost all of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s commercial customers will increase an average of 2.3 percent beginning in February, under a proposed rate filing. But the 307 customers whose...
Industrial Boom Driving Louisiana’s Ascension Parish
Sep 8 2014 // More than 2,000 construction workers are building a $2.1 billion expansion of CF Industries’ nitrogen complex in Louisiana’s Ascension Parish. The 100-acre addition to the nation’s largest nitrogen plant...
Hohensee Named VP, Commercial Underwriting at Lane & Associates in Louisiana
Sep 8 2014 // Kenner, La.-based Lane & Associates Inc. announced that Marie Hohensee has joined the managing general agency as vice president of commercial underwriting. Maria Hohensee Hohensee has over 30 years of experience in...
Business Moves
Sep 8 2014 // USI, Willis USI Insurance Services has entered into an agreement with certain subsidiaries of Willis North America Inc., part of Willis Group Holdings, to acquire seven of Willis’ retail insurance brokerage locations...
Louisiana AG Files Suit Against State Farm over Auto Repair Practices
Sep 8 2014 // Alleging “a culture of unsafe business practices” in its handling of vehicle repairs, Louisiana’s attorney general has filed suit against insurance giant State Farm. Attorney General Buddy...
Louisiana’s Homeowners Market Stronger 9 Years after Katrina
Sep 8 2014 // Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely due to the implementation of statewide building codes and strategies that...
Trying to Summon Ghosts, Men Destroy Vacant Louisiana Mansion
Sep 5 2014 // Seven men have pleaded guilty to arson or trespassing in a fire that destroyed the vacant LeBeau Plantation mansion in Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish last November. The sheriff said when they were arrested that the...
Louisiana’s Homeowners Market Stronger 9 Years after Katrina
Aug 29 2014 // Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely due to the implementation of statewide building codes and strategies that...
Louisiana Parish Dangerous Dog Ordinance Requires Liability Coverage
Aug 28 2014 // The Lafourche Parish Council in has approved a measure to tighten ownership restrictions for dangerous and vicious dogs. As with a similar law passed by the Terrebonne Parish Council this summer, The Courier reports the...
Surveys Aim to Find Out Extent of Feral Hog Damage in Louisiana
Aug 25 2014 // Feral hogs are rooting up levees and snarfing down crops all around Louisiana, but nobody’s sure just how much damage they’re doing. The LSU AgCenter is working to get a handle on that with a pair of...
Louisiana Volunteer Fireman Sentenced to 5 Years for Arson
Aug 22 2014 // The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry says a former volunteer firefighter from Longville has been sentenced to five years at hard labor for setting wildfires in woods near his home town. Court documents show...
California Man Arrested, Charged with Selling Fake Insurance in Louisiana
Aug 21 2014 // A Los Angeles man was arrested in New Orleans for selling fraudulent workers’ compensation and employers liability insurance policies throughout Louisiana, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced. Terry Francis...
